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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682024FFA6D98CFAF1535BFA90" bold="true" box="[197,302,1367,1389]" pageId="19" pageNumber="51">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Males of this species are easily distinguished from those of the only known congener,
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) and the metatibia, which is parallel-sided in the apical half (
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The
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= 1). Color of cuticle predominantly light to dark brown, except prothorax (sometimes), clypeolabral region, antennomeres 15, basal palpomeres, epipleura, and ill-defined lateroapical crescent of elytra pale (
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); legs generally pale, with tarsi and sometimes femora dorsally and tibiae vaguely infuscate (
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). Setation pale, whitish, uniform, conspicuous, decumbent, moderately dense, mostly obscuring cuticle color (
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).
<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9D1FF5152A3FEF1" bold="true" box="[152,214,247,268]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Head:</emphasis>
Head (
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,
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) short, broad, slightly narrower to slightly wider than pronotum in both sexes; head 1.53 (1.491.56,
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= 3) times wider than interocular distance in male, 1.41 times wider in female (
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= 1); eyes bulging, coarsely faceted.
<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9D1FEDA529EFE6C" bold="true" box="[152,235,380,401]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Thorax:</emphasis>
Pronotum (
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) slightly wider than long, 0.89 (0.870.92,
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= 4) times as long as wide; widest at middle, lateral edges sinuate. Elytron 3.51 (3.343.74,
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= 4) times as long as wide (
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).
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Tibiae unmodified, essentially parallel sided in both sexes (
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); male protarsomere 1 lobe curved, terminating in three blunt spines; male mesotarsomere 1 with a less conspicuous, curved lobe terminating in three blunt spines; male metatarsomere 1 with lobe extending to near middle of tarsomere 2, and terminating in two or three blunt spines.
<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9ABFD075338FD4B" bold="true" box="[226,333,673,694]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Abdomen:</emphasis>
Male pygidium (
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) truncate. Male sternite VIII (
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) apex with deep, U-shaped medial emargination subtended by a pair of narrowly rounded lobes; with apical setae longest and densest on lobes, becoming short and sparse in emargination. Spiculum gastrale (
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) parallel-sided in apical third, then sides abruptly converging at extreme apex; tegmen without median endocarina. Female terminalia unstudied.
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FC0A53B8FC3F" bold="true" box="[176,461,940,962]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Type Specimens Examined.</emphasis>
Records reported here are based on the examination of
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FB3A5356FB4C" bold="true" box="[176,291,1180,1201]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet is an adjective referring to the Mojave Desert, where all known specimens of
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FB4A53D3FAFF" bold="true" box="[176,422,1260,1282]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Host Plant Associations.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FAA153DBFAE0" bold="true" box="[176,430,1287,1309]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Geographic Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from the Granite Mountains in San Bernardino County,
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).
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<paragraph id="95630A7A2023FFA1D9F9FAF15286FA75" blockId="20.[150,639,194,1629]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">
<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FAF153E0FA90" bold="true" box="[176,405,1367,1389]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Seasonal Distribution.</emphasis>
26 April to 22/25 May (
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).
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<paragraph id="95630A7A2023FFA1D9F9FA2A5040F9DA" blockId="20.[150,639,194,1629]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">
<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D9F9FA2A5365FA5C" bold="true" box="[176,272,1420,1441]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D85CFA2A507DFA5F" box="[277,520,1420,1442]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">Gracilivectura mojavensis</emphasis>
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is easily distinguished from
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D875FA0153CCFA41" box="[316,441,1447,1468]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">G. pygidialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the dense setae mostly obscuring cuticle color (less dense and not obscuring cuticle color in
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D8D9FA7B507CFA0C" box="[400,521,1500,1522]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">G. pygidialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and by the unmodified male pygidium (pygidium broadly, deeply excavated apically in males of
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<emphasis id="A7A8D6682023FFA1D8FBF9B4505DF9DA" box="[434,552,1554,1575]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">G. pygidialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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<paragraph id="95630A7A2023FFA1D9F9F98A53A9F9A0" blockId="20.[150,639,194,1629]" pageId="20" pageNumber="52">
The hindgut of the dissected male
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was packed with bright yellow pollen.
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